From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: graceful shutdown of non-interactive Elisp program
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:59:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuzed120.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG7BpaqQ+KZro+v12x3y_v3wcQnB7wnP6qQ66sWDRx7EXEhEkw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 13 2020, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> I'm trying to make a Elisp program that is run in a
> non-interactive mode,
> i.e. essentially as `emacs --batch --load myfile.el'. A normal
> way to
> shutdown terminal programs is with C-c, which is expected to be
> "graceful"
> shutdown, e.g. the program still has a chance to save files etc.
>
> However, with Elisp I'm not sure how to achieve that except for
> constantly
> modifying `kill-emacs-hook', which would be a nightmare from
> coding
> perspective.
What do you mean "constantly modifying `kill-emacs-hook'"? You
just add a function to it when your program starts and if it's
shut down before Emacs is killed, you remove the function again.
Or leave it, if it doesn't do any harm.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-13 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-13 21:42 graceful shutdown of non-interactive Elisp program Paul Pogonyshev
2020-06-13 22:59 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2020-06-14 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-14 16:47 ` Paul Pogonyshev
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